Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State in Western Burma has succeeded in virtually ‘Muslims-Free Street’ ever since the sectarian violence turned to be a massacre of Rohingya Muslims took place in 2012. From busy market to quiet alley, Muslims have been driven out to be seen nowhere. Yet they are found either IDPs Camp on the outskirt of Sittwe, or the last Muslims quarter of the city named Aung Mingalar.
The Camp is vast ghetto field sheltering more than a hundred of thousands Muslims. Aung Mingalar is a ‘ghetto in downtown’ which is surrounded by several checkpoints and invisible but vigilant Buddhists neighbors. It is nothing short of segregation motivated racially and religiously. And I call it ‘Burma’s Apartheid‘. First minutes featured the shooting incident by security forces occurred on Aug.9 2013 and aftermath.